Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Bob Neuwirth, what a life.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bob-neuwirth-folk-singer-songwriter-134822569.html

RIP. There will be Glissendorf in heaven... if not the other place.

Dylan, from Chronicles: "Like Kerouac had immortalized Neal Cassady in On the Road, somebody should have immortalized Neuwirth … If ever there was a renaissance man leaping in and out of things, he would have to be it.”

Vangelis!!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vangelis-obituary/vangelis-composer-of-chariots-of-fire-score-dies-at-79-idUSKCN2N51L8

so soon after Klaus Schulze, too. what a legend. RIP to the big guy.

oh my goodness

dang

Terrible news! So many obscure gems in his catalogue. Who's left of the 70s-era synth wizards now, JMJ, Kitaro, Chris Franke...?

Sakamoto and Hosono!

aaaaggggggggggh!

i don't mean to diminish Vangelis, but oh my god, seeing "Sakamoto and Hosono!" as the first thing i read on the obituary thread was just AWFUL

ooops, sorry, my bad!! they are both alive and well!!!

no worries!

also, RIP Vangelis, of course. I haven't explored a ton of his catalog, but for Blade Runner alone, and his centrality to the 70s/80s synth world, he was a legend

Highly recommend "L'apocalypse des animaux", which I believe is a TV soundtrack, some incredibly pretty much on that one. Earth is also a fairly great album. Albedo/Spiral are both cool synth records if you have tolerance for Jarre-type noodling.

I haven't heard many of his 80's or 90's records. I suppose they might be interesting but there are just so many of him.

rip genius :(

Almost everything on the Delectus box set is great

xp

Nice, I will definitely check out L'apocalypse des animaux. And yeah, his catalog is crazy

'666' his creative highpoint for me, but his 70s output ranges from at least interesting to essential, 'Beaubourg' and Socrates' 'Phos' collab being two of the latter.

his first solo album, earth, is the absolute bomb

The man was one of a kind and, to me, the greatest of the European synth masters. Musically untouchable at his peak. This score for a ballet, "The Thread", from a couple of years back, is magnificent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyp-Hf2iUM

itt Vangelis, the Thread

This one’s my favourite, totally haunting and odd. A stunner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zm88FF4Axw

I saw Bob Neuwirth at the Cactus Cafe during SXSW once. Wandered offstage for 10 minutes halfway through the set. Love his album Havana Midnight.

RIP Bob Neuwirth, great songwriter and owner of the most famous orange striped shirt in rock & roll pic.twitter.com/xAYYQu1Ypo

— JF Robitaille (@JFRobitaille) May 19, 2022

I guess the ones worn (shared?) by The Velvet Underground and the one mentioned here are tied for distant second:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aErNjERoLJM

I wish a had a Bob Neuwirth in my own life, someone who's always close by to laugh at my jokes that no else does.

Perhaps you can create your own thread to serve that purpose.

Highly recommend "L'apocalypse des animaux", which I believe is a TV soundtrack, some incredibly pretty much on that one.

Agreed.

Before "Chariots of Fire" and "Blade Runner," "Theme from 'Cosmos'" warmed my teenage nerd heart.

I also love his sleazy disco productions, particularly “I Dig You” with Demis Roussos. RIP

Different “I Dig You” from Cult Hero’s, I gather.

I don't know the version you mention, but the one produced by Vangelis with Roussos on vocals is half unintelligible and half raunchy as hell, perfect bathhouse disco record. I think I discovered it via the Beardo Disco thread on here back in 2006.

Also, look for "Who" by Odyssey - it's basically the same song.

Roger Angell, one of the nation’s premier baseball writers, is dead at 101. In elegantly winding articles for The New Yorker loaded with inventive imagery, he wrote more like a fan than a sports journalist. https://t.co/UVJNBUo66y

— NYT Obituaries (@NYTObits) May 20, 2022

Bernard Wright

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-bernard-wright-dead-who-27024678.amp

(xpost) Have mentioned him a lot on ILB; The Summer Game was one the very first baseball books I ever read. I'm sure he saw every great player from Ruth to Trout.

xp oh no! nard was a legend. rip

Cathal Coughlan :(

Ah, boy…

This is just the worst news…

‘Cathal Coughlan passed away on 18th May 2022. He slipped away peacefully in hospital after a long illness. He was 61.’ pic.twitter.com/N4CsZwa8nH

— Tony Clayton-Lea (@TonyClaytonLea) May 23, 2022

Fuck!

Yeah this eats, big time.

:-(

What??!!!

Whoa!

This is bad. And 5 days ago, too. First in a very long time that news of an artists' passing has stopped me in my tracks.

RIP Bernard Wright. Just saw some cool pictures of him with Wayne Shorter's band courtesy of Renee Rosnes.

Confirmed that famous “anarchist” writer and pedophile “intellectual “ Peter Lamborn Wilson, aka Hakim Bey, passed away over the weekend.

Back in the early 90s as a teen I picked up a magazine named “Anarchy” at a news stand and thumbed through it thinking “oh cool I’m interested in it as a political philosophy let’s see what they have to say” and then put it quickly back on the shelf when the lead article was about how “age of consent laws are bullshit man”. I was young and naive but even then I had the feeling whoever was behind this magazine was hijacking the terminology of a legitimate political philosophy to justify kid fiddling.

i was assigned TAZ as a text in college - aside from finding it generally pretty silly as a political tract, i was super weirded out by the creepy p3d0 asides sprinkled throughout

Tbh it is unconscionable that he remains heralded by many as an important figure.

It’s also rarely talked about, but Allen Ginsberg was also a supporter of NAMBLA— he wrote an essay or two about it, in fact.

While I can still read “Wichita Vortex Sutra” and “Kaddish,” I don’t really go further than that any longer— and I avoid teaching him, too.

He will not be missed.

TIL hakim bey was a pseudonym and also other things about hakim bey

i'll spare the newsmax video, but Texas AG Ken Paxton, asked in a newsmax "interview" what kinds of things should be done, said something about the buildings being built in a way so there is only one point of entry before switching to his thought that the teachers should have had guns